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What two systems are activated during fight or flight response?

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1) autonomic nervous system
2) adrenal-cortical system

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what initiates the autonomic nervous system in the fight or flight response?

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the hypothalamus

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what sends a signal in the adrenal-cortical system during the fight or flight response

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the pituitary gland

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describe panic disorder

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recurrent, unexpected panic attacks

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what course does panic disorder usually take?

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chronic

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What is anxiety sensitivity?

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unfounded belief that bodily symptoms have harmful consequences

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What is interoceptive awareness?

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heightened awareness of bodily cues that may indicate an oncoming panic attack

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What is interoceptive conditioning?

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how certain bodily cues become a conditioned stimulus and illicit a panic attack as a response

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what kinds of medications are used to treat panic disorder?

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medications that affect serotonin and norepinephrine

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what is the issue with the biological treatment of panic disorder?

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a relapse after ending medication

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What are the goals of CBT for panic disorder?

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  • relaxation and breathing exercises
  • identify and challeng catastrophizing cognitions
  • sytematic desensitization
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describe GAD

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  • excessive anxiety about ordinary, everyday situations
  • anxiety is intrusive, causes distress or functional impairment
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what are the comorbidities of GAD?

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80% will have a comorbidity. often MDD

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what is the course of GAD?

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chronic

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Describe the emotional components of GAD

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  • more intense negative emotion
  • highly reactive to negative emotion
  • emotions are not controllable or manageable
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Describe the cogitive factors of GAD

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  • maladaptive assumptions
  • hypervigilant to posible threats
  • overreactions
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What do the maladaptive assumptions from GAD often reveal?

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  • fear of losing control
  • being unable to tolerate uncertainty
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What are the goals of CBT for GAD?

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  • confronting most worrisome issues
  • challenging catastrophizing thoughts
  • developing coping strategies
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what are the drugs used to treat GAD?

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  • benzos
  • tricyclic antidepressants
  • SSRI
  • SNRI
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are biological or cognitive treatments more effective for GAD?

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they have equal efficacy

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What is the main factor that differentiates social anxiety from a general fear?

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avoiding social situations

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what is the course of social anxiety?

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chronic

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What are the comorbidities with social anxiety?

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  • mood disorders
  • other anxiety disorders
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Describe the genetic factors of social anxiety

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genetic factors do not specifically lead to social anxiety but do lead to a general predisposition to anxiety disorders

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Describe the cognitive theory on social anxiety

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  • excessively high standards for own social perfpormance
  • focus on negative aspects of social interaction
  • evaluate own behaviors harshly
  • note potentially threatening social cues and misinterpret them in self defreating ways
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what medications are used to treat social anxiety?

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  • SSRI
  • SNRI
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What are the goals of CBT for social anxiety?

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  • exposing clients to social situations
  • group therapy to see they are not the only one and to prictice social skills
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how is mindfulness used to treat social anxiety?

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used to accept and observe anxiety

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Describe specific phobias

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  • unreasonable or irrational fears of specific objects/situations
  • fear is disproportionate to actual danger
  • will avoid phobia at all costs
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what are the five catagories of specific phobias?

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1) animal type
2) natual environment type
3) situational type
4) blood-injection type
5) other

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what is special about blood-injection type phobias?

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  • heart rate drops and person faints
  • usually more hereditary
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Describe agoraphobia

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  • fear places where they can’t escape or get help
  • fear they will embarrass themselves if others notice symptoms or escape attempt
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What is the most common comorbidity with agoraphobia?

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50% of people have a history of panic attacks

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What is the behavioral theory of specific phobias?

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  • classical conditioning can create the phobia
  • negative reinforcement (operant conditioning) can maintain a phobia
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What is the biological theory of specific phobias?

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  • 1st degree relatives makes you 3 to 4 times more likely to develop phobia
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What is the main goal of behavioral treatments of specific phobias?

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use exposure to extinguish person’s fear

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What components of behavior therapy are used to treat specific phobias?

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  • systematic desensitization
  • modeling
  • flooding
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what is the applied tension technique and what is it used for?

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  • increases blood pressure and heart rate
  • used for treatment of blood-injection type phobias to keep them from fainting
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what is used in the biological treatment of specific phobias?

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benzodiazapines

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Describe obsessions and compulsions for OCD

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  • obsessions: persistent and uncontrollable thoughts, images, ideas, impulses
  • compulsions: ritualistic behaviors or mental acts
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what did the DSM 5 change in regards to OCD?

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before the DSM 5, OCD was classified as an anxiety disorder. It has now been determined not everyone experiences anxiety

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what is the course for OCD?

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chronic

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wha is the major comorbidity of OCD?

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66% of people will have depression

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describe hoarding disorder

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  • uncontrollable urges to keep items with no utility or value
  • feelings of anxiety when someone tries to throw something out
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what are the comorbidities of hoarding disorder?

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  • depression
  • social anxiety
  • GAD
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what is the course of hoarding disorder?

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increases with age

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describe trichotillomania

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  • unconcious, repeatedly pulling out hairs
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describe body dysmorphia

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excessive concern with part of the body they see as defective, but others see as normal

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describe excoriation

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repeated picking of the skin

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What is the biological theory of OCD?

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  • dysfunction of circuit involved in motor, behavior, cognition, and emotion
  • HPA axis
  • dysregulation of serotonin
  • genetic heritability
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What are the cognitive theories of OCD?

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  • chronic depression/anxiety invoke intrusive thoughts
  • tendency toward rigid, moralistic thinking
  • believe they should be in total control over their thoughts
  • compulsions possibly caused by operant conditioning
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What kinds of medications are used to treat OCD?

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serotonin enhancing drugs reduce compulsions

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What is the goal of CBT for OCD?

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  • exposure and response prevention
  • challenge maladaptive cognitions
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what is exposure and response prevention?

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1) exposure to triggering thing
2) prevention from committing compulsion

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what are the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis?

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  • must be the result of a traumatic experience
  • symptoms must be present for at least a month
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what does the DSM constitute as experienceing trauma?

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  • direct experience of trauma
  • learn about trauma that happened to a loved one
  • repeated or extreme exposure to details of trauma
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What does the DSM count as a traumatic experience?

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expopsure to actual or threat of death, serious injury, or sexual violation

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what are the symptoms of PTSD?

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  • repeated experiencing of trauma
  • avoidance of anything related to trauma
  • negative changes in thoughts and mood
  • hypervigilence or chronic arousal
  • depersonalization or derealization
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What is different about acute stress disorder?

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the symptoms only last for a most 4 weeks

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What is different about adjustment disorder

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  • the stressor does not have to be traumatic
  • arises within 3 months of stressor
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What are the 4 catagories of traumatic events?

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1) natural disasters
2) human made disasters
3) traumatic events
4) sexual assaut

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What are the environmental/social factors of PTSD?

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  • severity, duration, procimity to trauma (experienced vs witness, who did it to you, etc)
  • amount of social support
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what are the psychological factors of PTSD?

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  • pre-existing anxiety or depression
  • coping strategies
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what are good and bad coping strategies for PTSD?

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good: meaning making
bad: substance abuse

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What are the biological factors of PTSD?

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  • brain more ractive to emotional stimulus
  • lw resting cortisol
  • exaggerated physiological response to stress
  • extreme/chronic stress during childhood
  • genetic predisposition
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What is the goal of CBT and stress management for PTSD?

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  • systematic desensitization
  • stress inoculation therapy
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what is stress inoculation therapy?

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  • used if a client can’t think about traumatic event
  • focuses on other stress in client’s life
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what medications are used to treat PTSD?

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  • SSRI
  • benzodiazapines
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What are the symptoms of separation anxiety disorder?

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  • extreme anxiety when separated from caregivers
  • may refuse to leave home
  • worried something may happen to caregiver
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what are the criteria for separation anxiety disorder?

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  • excessive fear that is developmentally inapropriate
  • symptoms for at least 4 weeks
  • significantly impairs functioning
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what are the 5 types of somatic disorders in the DSM?

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1) somatic symptom disorder
2) illness anxiety disorder
3) functional neurologcal symptom disorder
4) factitious disorder
5) psychological factors affecting other medical conditions

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What are the criteria of somatic symptom disorder?

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  • one or more distressing physical symptoms
    AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
    1) disproportionate and persostent thoughts about seriousness of symptoms
    2) persistently high level of anxietty about health or symptoms
    3) excessive time and energy devoted to symptoms
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What is the main difference between illness anxiety disorder and SSD?

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in IAD there are no physical symptoms (or only mild ones)

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what are the symptoms of IAD?

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  • high anxiety about having/developing a serious ilness
  • excessive health related behavior
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how long do symptoms of IAD have to be present for a diagnosis?

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6 months

75
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what are the 2 types of IAD patients?

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1) care seeking
2) care avoidant

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what are the cognitive factors of SSD and IAD?

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  • dysfunctional beliefs about illness
  • feel bodily sensations more intensly
77
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what are the psychological factors of SSD and IAD?

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  • PTSD increases risk
  • stressful events
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what is the goal for cognitive therapy for SSD and IAD?

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  • help people interpret their symptoms appropriately
  • avoid catastrophizing
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what is the goal of CBT for SSD and IAD?

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  • challenging illness beliefs and misinterpretations
  • expose clients to triggers
80
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What are the symptoms of FNSD?

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  • loss of neurological functioning in part of the body with no medical cause
  • can be sensory or motor
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what is the psychodynamic theory of FNSD?

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  • transfer of psychic energy attached to repressed emotions or memories to physical symptoms
  • primary and secondary gain
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what is primary and secondary gain?

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primary: reducing anxiety
secondary: people getting attention from others and being relieved of obligation

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what is the behavioral theory of FNSD?

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  • learned behaviors that allowed people to escape responsibility or situations
  • La Belle Indifference
  • childhood trauma
84
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what is Le Belle Indifference?

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soldiers became paralyzeand couldn’t return to battle

85
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what is the neurological theory of FNSD?

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sensory or motor areas of brain affected by anxiety

86
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what is the goal of psychoanalytic therapy for FNSD?

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helps express painful memories/emotions that are linked to symptoms

87
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what are the golas of CBT for FNSD?

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  • systematic desensitization
  • relieve anxiety
  • relieving any benefits client is receiving from having symptoms
88
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what is factitious disorder?

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faking an illness to gain medical attention

89
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what is malingering?

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faking a symptom or disorder to gain something

90
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what is dissociation?

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when parts on one’s self, memories, or consciousness become disconnected from one another

91
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what is the name for the different identities presented in DID?

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alters

92
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what is a host alter?

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the main personality that determines when the others get to present themselves

93
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when is the onset for DID?

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childhood

94
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what is the course for DID?

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chronic

95
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what is often comorbid with DID?

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  • depression
  • PTSD
  • substance abuse
  • BPD
96
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what is the main theory of DID?

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result of coping with intolerable illness

97
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what is the main form of treatment for DID?

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3-Phase trauma focused therapy

98
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what is 3 phase trauma focused therapy

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1) establish strong, trusting relationship and stabilize symptoms
2) processing, grieving, resolving trauma
3) integrate dissociated selves

99
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what happens in phase three of DID therapy?

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  • give voice to each alter to see their purpose
  • allow each alter to grieve
100
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what are the symptoms of dissociative amnesia?

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  • inability to recall autobiographical info
  • due to stress
101
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what is psychogenic amnesia?

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  • amnesia from pschological causes
  • retrograde amnesia about personal info
102
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describe dissociative fugue states

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  • a person travels to a new place and assumes new identity
  • no memory of previous identity
  • caused by stressor
103
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what is the theory of dissociative amnesia?

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  • defense against intolerable memories
  • arousal impacts memory encoding
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what is the main form of treatment for dissociative amnesia and fugues? What is its goal?

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psychotherapy aims to identify the stressors and learn coping skills

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describe depersonalization/derealization disorder

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frequent episodes of feeling detatched from one’s own mental processes or body

106
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what is depersonalization?

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losing sense of own reality

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what is derealization?

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losing sense of reality of outside world

108
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what are causes for depersonalization/derealization disorder?

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  • stress, sleep deprivation, durgs
  • childhood abuse
109
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what is the definition of a mood disorder?

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severe alterations in mood for long periods of time with severe disruptions

110
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what is a state of depression?

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extraordinary feelings of sadness

111
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what is a state of mania?

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intense/unrealistic feelings of excitement/euphoria

112
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what are the 2 mood states?

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1) depression
2) mania

113
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what are the cognitive symptoms in depression?

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  • anhedonia
  • worthlessness, guilt, hopelessness
114
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what is anhedonia?

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  • no interest in activities
  • stop engaging in thins they enjoy
115
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what are the physical symptoms of depression?

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  • changes in appetite, sleep, activity
  • psychomotor retardation or agitation
116
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what are severe symptoms of depression?

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  • delusions
  • hallucinations
  • suicide
117
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what are the 2 types of MDD?

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1) single episode
2) recurrent episode

118
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how long must symptoms be present for MDD diagnosis?

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2 weeks

119
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how many symptoms are needed for an MDD diagnosis?

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5 of 9

120
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what constitutes recuurent episode MDD?

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episodes must be separated by 2 months

121
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what cannot be diagnosed as MDD?

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grief unless atypical behaviors are present

122
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what are the 8 specifiers for MDD?

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1) anxious distress
2) mixed features
3) melancholic features
4) psychotic features
5) catatonic features
6) atypical features
7) seasonal pattern
8) peripartum onset

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what is the anxious distress specifier?

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prominent anxiety symptoms

124
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what is the mixed features specifier?

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  • 3 or more manic symptoms with depression
  • not enough to be a manic episode
125
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what is the melancholic features specifier?

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prominent physiological symptoms

126
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what is the psychotic features specifier?

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dellusions/hallucinations

127
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what is the catatonic features modifier?

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strange physical behaviors
- lack of movement
- excited aggitation

128
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what is the atypical features specifier?

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  • odd assortment of symptoms
  • does not mean rare
129
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what is the peripartum onset specifier?

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onset during pregnancy or within 4 weeks of birth

130
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what are the criteria for persistent depressive disorder?

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  • symptoms for most of the day for at least 2 years
  • 2 of 5 symptoms
131
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what are the comorbidities for persistent depressive disorder?

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  • anxiety
  • subtance use
131
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how do symptoms of persistent depression differ from MDD?

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they are longer lasting but less severe

132
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what are the required symptoms for premenstrual dysphoric disorder?

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  • irritability
  • depressed mood
  • uncontrolled emotion
133
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what are the criteria fo premenstural dysphoric disorder?

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  • symptoms arise within a week of cycle
  • distress or impairment
134
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what are the comorbidities for PMDD?

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  • GAD
  • agoraphobia
  • Bipolar
  • PTSD
  • MDD
135
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what are the symptoms of mood dysregulation disorder?

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  • severe and chronic irritability
  • persistently negative mood
  • severe temper outbursts
136
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what are the criteria for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?

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  • only ages 6-18
  • tantrums must be disproportionate to cause
  • behavior must be age inappropriate
137
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what is the course of depressive disorders?

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long lasting and recurrent

138
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what are the comorbidities of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?

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-ODD
- coduct disorder
- ADHD
- depression

139
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how do MDD symptoms usually present in adolescents?

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irritability

140
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what are the comorbidities of adolescent MDD?

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  • ADHD
  • anxiety disorders
  • disruptive disorder
  • substance use
  • enureses (peeing yourself)
141
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describe a manic episode

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abnormally, persistently elevated or irritable mood with goal directed activity or energy

142
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what is required for a manic episode?

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symptoms last at least a week

143
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what are the cognitive/behavioral symptoms of mania?

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  • impulsive behavior, rapid speech, racing thoughts
  • “flight of ideas” mind racing but can’t keep up verbally
  • grandiosity: inflated self-esteem
144
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what are the physical symptoms of mania?

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  • increased energy
  • decreased sleep and appetite
145
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what are the severe symptoms of mania?

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dellusions and hallucinations

146
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what is not needed for a manic episode diagnosis?

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distress

147
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what are the symptoms of bipolar I?

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  • elevated, expansive, or irritable mood
  • manic episode for more than a week
  • possible depressive episodes
  • possible dellusions/hallucinatinos
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what are the symptoms of bipolar II?

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  • severe depression
  • hypomania
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what are the criteria for bipolar II?

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  • NO dellusions/hallucinatinos
  • mania only needs to be present for 4 days
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what is not required for a bipolar I diagnosis?

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depressive episodes

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what is the defining feature of cyclothymic disorder?

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episodes not frequent, severe, or long enough for bipolar diagnosis

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what are the criteria for cyclothymic disorder?

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  • episodes for at least 2 years
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what is the criteria for rapid cyling bipolar disorder?

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4 or more episodes within a year

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what is the course of bipolar disorder?

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recurrent

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explain the genetic theory of depression

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  • there is a strong genetic component
  • polygenic
  • serotonin transport gene
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explain the neurotransmitter theory of depression

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dysregulation of serotonin and norepinephrine

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explain the brain abnormalities theory of depression

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  • less gray matter in prefrontal cortex
  • anterior singulate: stress/social behaviors and attention
  • smaller hippocampus
  • enlargement and overreactivity of amygdala
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explain the neuroendocrine theory of depression

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  • elevated cortisol levels
  • chronic hyperactivity of HPA axis
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explain the behavioral theory of depression

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  • stressors reduce positive reinforcers in a person’s life
  • learned helplessness
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explain the cognitive theories of depression

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  • negative cognitive triad: negative view of self, world, future
  • reformulated learned helplessness: focuses on attributions of stressors
  • ruminative response cycle: focus on process of thinking over content
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explain the interpersonal theory of depression

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  • often from strained reationships
  • rejection sensitivity
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explain the sociocultural theories of depression

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  • cohort effect
  • gender and race differences
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explain the genetic factor of bipolar disorder

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5-10 times more likely

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explain the brain abnormality theory of bipolar disorder

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  • altered structure and functioning of amygdala and prefrontal cortex
  • basal ganlgia: abnormal response to environmental rewards
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explain the neurotransmitter theory of bipolar disorder

A

dysregulation of the dopamine system

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what brain structure is linked to manic episodes

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basal ganglia

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what are the psychological factors for bipolar disorder

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  • greater sensitivity to rewards
  • increased stress
  • disruptions in routine
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what are the biological treatments of mood disorders?

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  • medication
  • ECT
  • brain stimulation
  • light therapy
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what are the goals of behavioral therapy for mood disorders?

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  • 6-12 weeks
  • teach skills to change negative circumstances
  • change how people interact
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whatare the goals of CBT for mood disorders?

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  • designed to be brief
  • identify negative automatic thought
  • recognize basic beliefs/assumptions
  • learn new coping skills
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what are the four types of problems that intrpersonal therapy deals with?

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1) grief/loss
2) role dispute
3) role transition
4) interpersonal skill deficits

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what is interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (ISRT) and what are its goals when treating mood disorders?

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  • combo of interpersonal and behavioral therapies
  • help people maintain regular routines and realtionships
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what kind of therapy is least likely to hace a relapse for mood disorders?

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psychotherapy

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